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PowerVC with Failover Capability

Our Company uses PowerVC to build out and maintain AIX VMs. In order to deploy this appliance in our production environment, we would need a highly available solution. We are requesting a redundant solution for PowerVC.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

When open member in editor(Ctrl-Shift-A) for display or print file, add open or browse with report designer/screen designer

Instead of having to the remote systems and select a member, right click and browse or open with, have this option added to the pop-up when you do a Ctrl-Shift-A. Use Case: It would be used anytime you open a display file or print file.
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

ACS - Run Command

IBM has done a good job replacing "System i Navigator" with the "Access Client Solutions" product. However there are a few features that System i Navigator provided that are not present in the ACS product. One feature I would like to request that ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

lssvcevents command extention with events details

CLI command lssvcevents doesn't allow to view details related to serviceable event the same way as GUI interface (Select problem->View details). There is no information about SRC Extentions, failing partition id or failing partition name. Retri...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

ACS : Thai keyboard switching

In Thailand, when we want to switch from English to Thai, we will press button '~', in the old iAW, when we press '~' on Window, keyboard on Window and iAW will both change to Thai. But for ACS, when we press '~' on Window, we have to press Ctrl+N...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

AIX 7.2 Live Update support for purestorage PCM

Please add support for the PureStorage PCM with the AIX 7.2 Live Update feature. Our team will use this feature to further enable ever shrinking maintenance outage periods by patching without downtime. A full description will be attached to this RFE.
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Expansion of password length for BRMS DDM Conncetions

IBM i allows for passwords of lengths up to 128 characters, to accommodate various security requirements. In our case, user passwords must be a minimum of 12 characters, and we are planning a move to a minimum length of 15 characters, for enhanced...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Delivered

Add ability to control port numbers used by geographic mirroring

When defining a device cluster resource group, data port IP addresses are assigned to nodes, but ports are not. Instead, a random port number between 1024 and 65535 is assigned when geographic mirroring is started. This traffic should be locked do...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 6 Delivered

Rewording Error Message

It appears our product is receiving an incorrect error message from PowerVC. We believe that the customer can benefit greatly from changing the wording of this error message to make the issue clearer. A picture will be uploaded to ecurep for this ...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

BRMS enhancement: Option to set SAVACTOPT (*ALWCKPWRT) in a BRMS control group

I want to save SAP IFS objects using BRMS. The SAVBRM command has a parameter named SAVACTOPT. For this parameter I can use the option *ALWCKPWRT. I can't find such a parameter within the BRMS control group definition or the STRBKUBRM command. Thi...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Delivered

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